Talking in one language and talking in another, I think inevitably, produce two different personalities, as far as I've seen in other people. I assume it does the same for me.

The left is being funded primarily by the drug traffickers who provide this tax money and that's why the guerrillas in Colombia, unlike the guerrillas anywhere else in Latin America, have been able to survive for 40 years because they have a hard, solid source of income.

I realized that I had traveled to Havana during what now seems like the childhood of the Cuban Revolution, if you think that Fidel has now been in power for 44 extremely long years. I started looking at the revolution as history, and not as part of the daily news.

One does, after all, take on many of the givens of a society when one takes on its language.

If you're going to be a myth or want to be a myth, you'd better die young.

An essential part of the magic involves turning everyone into an enemy, to ward off surprises.

For the kids, who in their lives have never known the slightest power, delinquency is a way of looking for power.